Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James G. Fitzmaurice arrived in Manhattan after their east-west trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, May 7) they received a noisy, elaborate burst of greeting. Touched by this fanfare, impartially accorded by the U.S. to a two-thirds Germanic achievement, they donated the propeller of their monoplane Bremen to the projected Museum of the City of New York...
...couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue paper and magic lanterns in a manner once realistic but now absurd...
Certainly this view is strengthened by the peculiar attitude of Socialist-Novelist Mussolini toward the mob which he raises against Claudia the courtesan. The mob, he declares, "represented the poorest classes, excitable, impulsive, sentimental. They are the classes which patiently endure economic slavery without protest and then burst into revolt over some moral issue...
...wife is Actress Peggy Wood of The Clinging Vine (musical show), Merchant of Venice (Portia), and Candida fame. Since becoming Mrs. John V. A. Weaver she has burst into print (Saturday Evening Post) with advice to would-be actors...
Memorable, last week, was the sudden, unexpected burst of activity in the steel industry (see below...